AnthropEccEntEric

the classification of fecal matter as a drug by the FDA is an amazing point of departure for so many discussions - the innoculation of one person's digestive tract with the matter from another's is as if transplanting good soil from one garden to another from one angle - turned inside out, the human intestinal lumen as a fitting substrate or "soil" for this or that (micro) organism - while the word "soil" comes from the words for the “ground” and for “seat” (solum/solium) it’s not all that far from meaning foundation or base if the connotation were to be tweaked in a more positive direction than simply dirt or excrement - have intestinal fortitude, go with your gut, dirt don’t hurt - the seeds of plants are often indigestible and some even require a trip through the digestive passage of an animal to germinate, emerging like the egg from a hen with all the potential for initiating and animating its construction - our health is a reflection of the integrity of the soil which is not simply the base of our food chain but also a stop along the way... as such we would do well to acknowledge and accept our responsibility to eat with it in mind that we are perhaps no more to our universe than the germinators for so many other more noble species, no more important to the planet than is the quality of the job we do in the processing of the food we are condemned so regularly and constantly to consume